Amira Hass was born in Jerusalem in 1957, the daughter ofYugoslavian-Jewish refugees. A journalist for the Hebrew dailyHa'aretz, she covers Gaza and the West Bank. She received the UPI'sInternational Award and the Sokolow Prize, Israel's highest honor forjournalists, and received UNESCO's Guillermo Camo World Press FreedomPrize in 2003. Hass is the only Jewish Israeli correspondent onPalestinian affairs to live among the people about whom she reports.She is the author of Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in aLand Under Siege (Metropolitan/Owl, 2000) and Reporting fromRamallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land (Semiotext(e),2003).